MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA’s Hangar N211 will once again be transformed into the ‘North Pole’ for the annual Cops Care Cancer Foundation Christmas Fantasy Flight for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
The event will be held on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 in the San Jose Police Department Air Support Unit hangar, N211, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The event starts promptly at 11:30 a.m. PST.
Children from San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, including Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center and Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland, will be treated to a day of fun with their families complete with fun activities, food, drinks and music.
WHAT: Cops Care Cancer Foundation’s annual Christmas Fantasy Flight for children with cancer.
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008
WHERE: San Jose Police Department Air Support Unit hangar, N211, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
For media clearance to attend the event, contact Jonas Dino at 650-207-3280 or 650-604-5612 by noon Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. Your name and organization will be added to a list at the NASA Ames main gate. News media representatives are requested to arrive by 12:15 p.m. PST to be staged for the arrival of the children and their families to Hangar N211.
Highlighting the event will be the arrival of Santa in a police helicopter, bearing gifts for each child and their siblings. Other activities include a ‘bubble zone’, jumper houses, face painting, carnival games, and special access to police and fire department vehicles.
Police officers and firefighters from the San Jose Police Department and Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety will greet the children at Yahoo! Inc.’s Sunnyvale campus before boarding buses to NASA Ames. Upon their arrival, special guests, including California Assemblymember Alberto Torrico, local police officers, cartoon characters and more than 100 foundation volunteers, will greet the children and make each one feel like a VIP.
In addition, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., will provide check-in gifts for the children and the Cops Care Cancer Foundation will give each family gift cards to help purchase Christmas dinner and presents.
For more information, contact San Jose Police Officer Brian Simuro, president of the Cops Care Cancer Foundation, at 408-406-1445 or visit the foundation Web site:
http://www.CopsCareCancerFoundation.org
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